Intelligent Life follows the story of a U.N. worker in a department created to represent humankind in the event of alien contact. The man falls in love with a mysterious woman who turns out to be an alien, and Nyong’o will play the woman at the center of the alien contact. The film is slated to go into production this summer, but no release date has been scheduled.

Until then, you catch Nyong’o in Disney’s The Jungle Book, which opens April 15.